As I was watching Dwight Howard’s corpse limp lifelessly around the key last night in search of braaaaaaaaaaains, I was hit by an idea to help promote great labels we love. It probably didn’t hurt the naming process watching twitter explode over Pau’s benching, but the phrase I kept coming back to was “the starting(…)
It’s no secret that PS I Love You is blowing up – Same number, same hood. It’s all good. – and quickly becoming the face of the Canadian 90′s rock movement. They’ve already gotten tons of Pitchfork love, glowing reviews from almost anyone that hears Paul’s songs (like “2012“), and successful tours south of the(…)
There’s a scene near the end of Freak & Geeks when a lost Daniel Desario turns to one of the tag-along nerds, the oddly confident Harris Trinsky, for validation. Despite being wildly unpopular and into D&D and Audio Visual activities, Daniel recognizes the certainty and swagger Harris emits even at such a young age. It’s(…)
photo by Nicola Acker It’s no surprise that the latest LP from Sub Poppers, Beach House has been hoisted on a pedestal by the online music community. Teen Dream is a record with almost no flaws; from feel to sequencing to the strides the band made without losing the soul of what made the project(…)
I know a few things about Toronto duo Woodhands, the most important of which for you, the reader/consumer of excellent Canadian music, is that they have a new album coming out on Paper Bag Records on January 26th called Remorsecapade. Now for some of those other things: I know they play brand of electro-influenced rock(…)
Pleasant surprises are rare in this day & age, but I have to say, one of the nice things about having one of these nifty music blogs, is that you tend to get pleasantly surprised on a fairly regular basis. This is exactly what happened when I listened to CFCF’s Continent for the first time(…)
Seeing as how this is merely an average Monday morning in November, I’m guessing many of you weren’t overly psyched to greet the day. Well, let us turn that around quick fast: with a simple email to us you could win yourself 6 beautiful vinyl albums from Paper Bag Records. Yes friend, you read that(…)
This Montreal quartet just released their debut EP – La saveur des fruits – and hot damn, Ce Soir is the type of song that stops you in your tracks. Before it even finishes you are already lunging for the back button and scouring the net for the ole back catalog. The melody moves deftly(…)
